Monica S. Aswani, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Paul Shafer, Boston University
The U.S. has made great progress in getting more people insured since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014. The...
Veronika Dolar, Pace University
President-elect Donald Trump owes his political comeback in large part to voters’ concerns over the soaring price of everything from gasoline and housing to coffee and bagels.
Charles Sims, University of Tennessee
Partisan squabbling isn’t just annoying – it’s also bad for business.
That’s what my colleagues and I found in a recent study on how uncertainty in...
Myoung-Gi Chon, Auburn University
Image it’s Friday evening. You’re about to watch a new Netflix drama, trying to unwind after a long week. Suddenly, your phone pings with a work email marked “urgent.” Your...
Ian Afflerbach, University of North Georgia
Over its long history, the American labor movement has displayed a remarkably rich vocabulary for shaming those deemed traitors to its cause.
Some insults, such...
David Ekbladh, Tufts University
The past decade and a half has seen upheaval across the globe. The 2008 financial crisis and its fallout, the COVID-19 pandemic and major regional conflicts in Sudan, the Middle...
Steven J. Hyde, Boise State University
The multibillion-dollar collapse of FTX – the high-profile cryptocurrency exchange whose founder now awaits trial on fraud charges – serves as a stark reminder of the perils of...
Todd Jones, Mississippi State University; Benjamin Cowan, Washington State University, and Jeff Swigert, Southern Utah University
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